Barracking for the Umpire by Andrea Gibbs

BLACK SWAN STATE THEATRE OF WA PRESENTS

BARRACKING FOR THE UMPIRE

BY ANDREA GIBBS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

After a best on ground performance in 2022 Barracking for the Umpire returns for an encore Perth season before hitting the road on a regional WA tour.

This family drama tackles head-on the fragility of the human body and the impacts of the great game on our players our family and our community.

Donnybrook Football Club is set to honour its greatest son – Doug Williams.

Hard as flint. Salt of the earth.

Wife Delveen by his side riding every bump with him. Feeling every head knock.

All the kids are flying home to join the celebration.

But after years of the game he loves the sure hands of Williams are starting to fumble the ball.

****1/2 

" A Production that brings footy back to Subiaco...highly entertaining yet heartbreaking" The West Australian

DIRECTOR Clare Watson

CAST: Michael Abercromby Pippa Grandison Joel Jackson Steve Le Marquand Ebony McGuire Jo Morris Ian Wilkes

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Sara Chirichilli

LIGHTING DESIGNER Lucy Birkinshaw

COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER Joe Paradise Lui

VIDEO DESIGNER Micahel Carmody

DRAMATURG Polly Low 

Content Warning: Dementia amnesia partial nudity sexual references fog and coarse language.

Tickets:

https://blackswantheatre.com.au/season-2024/barracking-for-the-umpire

Host or Publisher Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA